Category Archives: Tape storage

Tape still alive, well and growing at Spectra Logic

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Ray

Today I met with Spectra Logic execs and some of their Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers, and toured their manufacturing, test labs and briefing center.  The tour was a blast and the customers Kyle Knack from National Geographic (Nat Geo) … Continue reading →

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Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ray

Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA … Continue reading →

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SOHO backup options

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ray

I must admit, even though I have disparaged DVD archive life (see CDs and DVDs longevity questioned) I still backup my work desktops/family computers to DVD and DVDdl disks.  It’s cheap (on sale 100 DVDs cost about $30 and DVDdl … Continue reading →

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Top 10 storage technologies over the last decade

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ray

Some of these technologies were in development prior to 2000, some were available in other domains but not in storage, and some were in a few subsystems but had yet to become popular as they are today.  In no particular … Continue reading →

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Why Bus-Tech, why now – Mainframe/System z data growth

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, EMC announced the purchase of Bus-Tech, their partner in mainframe or System z attachment for the Disk Library Mainframe (DLm) product line. The success of open systems mainframe attach products based on Bus-Tech or competitive technology is subject to some debate … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with tape?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Ray

Was on a conference call today with Oracle’s marketing discussing their tape business.  Fred Moore (from Horison Information Systems) was on the call and mentioned something which surprised me.  What’s missing in open and distributed systems was some standalone mechanism … Continue reading →

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